US Patent Issued to Molnlycke Health Care on May 26 for "Polyurethane foam for use in a wound pad" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,400, issued on May 26, was assigned to Molnlycke Health Care AB (Molndal, Sweden).

"Polyurethane foam for use in a wound pad" was invented by Stefan Areskoug (Savedalen, Sweden), James W. Davis (Cumming, Ga.), William Laliberte (Wiscasset, Maine) and Eva Larko Sander (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a polyurethane foam use as a wound pad or wound pad layer, wherein the polyurethane foam has an antimicrobial salt. Also described is a wound pad and a wound dressing that includes the polyurethane foam, a method for manufacturing a wound pad or wound pad layer and to a method for manufacturing a wound d...